In 2017 he moved to Orlando to embark on his most recent project to grow and forage 100% of his food for a year. He lives in a 100 square foot tiny house that he built with nearly exclusively second hand materials with friends. During this time, he illustrates alternatives to the wasteful globalized food system. He also explores whether it is possible to positively influence such a system while living outside it. Each month Rob will be sharing his adventures to inspire our readers how we can live sustainably and decrease our environmental impact. Rob Greenhold displays all the trash he generated over the course of two weeks living in his tiny garden shed house. Photo by Brendan McCourt
bal tion of glo Rob's seleacble companies sustain Imperfect Produce Our fruits and vegetables are being wasted, and you are paying extra for it! The crooked carrot, the curvy cucumber, the under-size apple. Billions of pounds of fruits and veggies are wasted, often for being the “wrong” shape, colour, or size. Supermarkets are the culprit for the waste with their strict cosmetic standards. Imperfect Produce is giving a new face to “ugly” produce. They source these normally wasted fruits and veggies from farms and offer them for 30-50% off! Customers sign up for a home produce delivery subscription and receive an affordable box of imperfect produce at their door each week. Every week’s delivery is different and full of imperfect surprises.
Tool Library Welcome to Tournevie, the affordable and ecological tool library in Brussels, Belgium. It operates just like a library, but instead of checking out books, you check out tools.
It’s a Community Textile Arts & Salvage Workshop where you can repair your clothes, make your own home decor… You can repair or make anything you want! They stock fabrics, zippers, buttons, thread, and more. All donated to them to keep it out of the landfill. They have community machines, so you don’t need to own one. The volunteers will help and teach you how to fix and make things. There is no charge to use the shop, its donation based, and nobody is turned away for lack of funds.
For just $25 USD each year, you get unlimited access to a wide range of quality tools. From simple hand tools to expensive power tools, to hard to find specialty tools. Joining the library saves members huge sums of money, saves storage space in their homes, and reduces environmental impact by sharing tools rather than overproducing them. Tournevie offers quality tools that last, providing an alternative to the throwaway society. They create equal access for more people and have created a community where people can learn and work together.
thefabrica.org.
tournevie.be
imperfectproduce.com
The Fabrica Most clothing today is designed for the dump, resulting in the average American throwing away 70 pounds of clothing per year! The Fábrica is a solution in their community.
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